Posted on 07/02/2008 3:27:51 PM PDT by blam
Quite literally the gold miners in Morgan and Brown counties Indiana moved on to California BEFORE gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill (formerly the centerpoint of the Russian colony in California).
They were there to take advantage of that discovery INSTANTLY. I've suspected for a long time that they'd already found placer deposits (similar to what they'd worked in Indiana and Ohio) in Diamond County and simply kept things quiet.
Of Note: Not all the gold miners left Indiana. Many of them stayed in the area and took advantage of the white oak forests to create a serious basket industry.
I love that part where the flower squirts someone right in the eye...
Gold was first discovered in southern California, but it was a small placer deposit and was quickly panned out. It simply didn't last long enough to cause a gold rush.
No doubt the Spanish looked wherever they could in Southern CA but they never really got a grasp on the North.
“It’s been my observation that General/Chat is where real news goes to die. People who thirst for substantive news simply don’t go there because of all the Paris Hilton crap.”
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You must be talking about a different Religion forum.
Sometimes a /s should not be needed.
More like TEARING NEWS.
Which political party will do a better job of funding the kind of amateur and professional sky search work that needs to be done to identify new, potentially dangerous asteroids and comets? There has been especially a lack of trained observers for the Southern Hemisphere. See “Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteoroids; The Growing Threat”, by Austen Atkinson, 1999, if this issue interests or is of concern to you.
“On FR we have categories.”
Yes, and one of my favorites is Catastrophism as I am very interested in comets, asteroids, volcanoes, and earthquakes as well as other phenomenon that have the potential to hurt/kill me and millions of others including you and other FReepers. War is not the only danger we face.
“Clearly science is about as newsworthy as Paris Hilton.”
And we wonder why science education is in trouble in this country, and we are outsourcing technical jobs to India. IF this kind of stupid attitude continues, China and India will be happy to take the science and technology “burden” away from us!!! After all, how important is nucular phisics and all those other waity matters to our country’s safety and prosperity. It’s just those pesky rats, that’s all.
To whoever owns the ping list for subjects such as these ....please include me. Thanks!
Blam’s catastrophe and ancient civilization threads are one of the highlights of Free Republic.
If you meant to be funny, it didn’t work. It sounded insulting, frankly.
May you burn in HE-double-tooth-picks, Heretic!
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